The story by now is familiar: employees of Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac voted down an offer to keep 800 jobs from moving to Stillwater, Oklahoma. Realizing that they had just voted themselves out of jobs, union members began calling for another vote – but IAM headquarters in Chicago immediately shut them down.
A day late and a dollar short, Governor Jim Doyle issued a statement claiming he had done all he could to keep Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac. Doyle outlined demands that Mercury Marine create and retain 2,700 jobs and maintain a significant presence in Fond du Lac for 12 years. In exchange the state would provide unspecified financial incentives.
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Posted in Americans For Prosperity, Bailouts, Constitution, Corruption and/or Public Mind Control, Declaration of Independence, Economic Collapse, Energy, Financial Crisis, Freedom, Global Warming and Climate Change, Government Corruption, Health Care, Income Taxes, Inflation, Lobbyists / Special Interests, Marinette, Menominee, Peshtigo, Public Concerns, Recall Doyle, Recession / Depression, Republic, Revolution, Second Amendment, Senate, Social Security & Medicare, Social Security and Medicare, State Government, State of Wisconsin, Stimulus, TARP, Tea Party, The Federal Reserve, The Matrix, Trilateral Commission, U.S. Government, Universal Health Care, WI, Wisconsin, congress, economy, gun rights, pork barrel, rights, stimulus bill, stimulus package, taxation on Jul 21st, 2009 2 Comments »
Hundreds of Thousands of Americans protest decades of tyranny, usurpation, corruption, bailouts, TARP, stimulus packages and utter Constitutional contempt by the U.S. Government.
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Posted in Democratic Party, Economic Collapse, Financial Crisis, Income Taxes, Marinette, Peshtigo, Public Concerns, Public Schools, Recall Doyle, Recession / Depression, Republic, Revolution, State Government, State of Wisconsin, WI, Wisconsin, economy, pork barrel, rights, taxation on Jul 20th, 2009 No Comments »
From the left, the Center on Wisconsin Strategy published its annual report in late 2008 with this unhappy summary:
“The national economy has grown more rapidly than Wisconsin’s, leaving the state’s per capita income more than $2,500 behind the national [average].”
From the center, the non-partisan Competitive Wisconsin group reached a similar conclusion in its 2008 benchmark report: “Wisconsin has moved further away from the national average in per capita income, number of new jobs created and number of new private businesses.”
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Posted in Marinette, Peshtigo, Public Concerns, Recall Doyle, Recession / Depression, Revolution, State Government, State of Wisconsin, WI, Wisconsin, economy, pork barrel, rights on Jul 15th, 2009 2 Comments »
Survey Results as Reported by Wisconsin Assemblyman John Nygren
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Posted in Democratic Party, Economic Collapse, Financial Crisis, Freedom, Income Taxes, Inflation, Lobbyists / Special Interests, Marinette, Peshtigo, Public Concerns, Recall Doyle, Recession / Depression, Republic, State Government, State of Wisconsin, WI, Wisconsin, economy, pork barrel, taxation on Jul 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
He has tested, serviced and sold products made by Mercury Marine, the boat-engine maker that has called this city home for decades. He worked 24 years for the company and for the last 21 years has operated the Mr. Marine boat dealership.
So, Lloyd took notice when news began to surface this month that Mercury Marine might be looking to consolidate operations, either in Wisconsin or in Stillwater, Okla.
“It would be a devastating blow here; they’re the No. 1 employer in town,” Lloyd said, calculating the potential impact of Mercury choosing Oklahoma over Wisconsin.
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Posted in Democratic Party, Economic Collapse, Election, Financial Crisis, Freedom, Government Corruption, Income Taxes, Inflation, Lobbyists / Special Interests, Marinette, Peshtigo, Public Concerns, Public Schools, Recall Doyle, Recession / Depression, Republic, Revolution, State Government, State of Wisconsin, WI, Wisconsin, economy, rights, taxation on Jun 26th, 2009 3 Comments »
Yesterday, the Senate passed a budget that was approved by a Conference Committee on a 17 to 15 vote with your senator, Dave Hansen voting in favor. A Conference Committee is a panel of legislators formed to iron out differences between the Senate and Assembly when they pass different budgets. The budget that came out of that committee raises taxes over $2 billion, property taxes an additional $1.5 billion, and increases government spending by nearly 7 percent. As well, there are non-fiscal policy provisions that changed in this budget compared to the Senate and Assembly versions, including those dealing with automobile insurance. This change is very important for Northeast Wisconsin drivers who, if it is enacted into law, will be paying higher insurance rates to subsidize high risk drivers in areas like Milwaukee.
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Posted in Revolution on Jun 8th, 2009 No Comments »
Why is this budget fatally flawed? There are numerous reasons and many of them are very complex. Too complex to explain in a few paragraphs. In no particular order, these are just a few of the problems I have with this budget and how it hammers the middle class – the very segment of the population the Democrat majority purports to protect.
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Posted in Democratic Party, Economic Collapse, Financial Crisis, Income Taxes, Marinette, Peshtigo, Public Concerns, Recall Doyle, Recession / Depression, Republic, Revolution, State Government, State of Wisconsin, WI, Wisconsin, economy, taxation on May 29th, 2009 1 Comment »
During the 1990’s, Wisconsin enacted legislation to encourage recycling and waste reduction, including prohibiting certain items from being placed in landfills and establishing financial assistance payments to local governments to operate local recycling programs. To fund these programs, businesses and municipalities pay a variety of surcharges and tipping fees on every ton of solid waste disposed of in landfills throughout the state. Essentially, tipping fees are taxes paid on garbage.
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Posted in Bailouts, Corruption and/or Public Mind Control, Democratic Party, Economic Collapse, Financial Crisis, Freedom, Government Corruption, Health Care, Income Taxes, Inflation, Lobbyists / Special Interests, Marinette, Morality and Virtue, Peshtigo, Public Concerns, Public Schools, Recall Doyle, Recession / Depression, Republic, Revolution, State Government, State of Wisconsin, WI, Wisconsin, economy, pork barrel, rights, taxation on May 22nd, 2009 2 Comments »
“You’ll recall that [Gov. Jim] Doyle announced in late November that [the state] would eliminate these payments,” wrote Mr. or Ms. Throat. “Seems like a lot of them got in just under the wire.”
The list itemizes “discretionary compensation awards” — bonuses — to 82 state employees, including the UW System. A few are lump-sum payments: $1,000 here, $500 there, $3,150 to one UW-Madison supervisor for “new duties.” But most are per-hour salary adjustments for merit, equity, new duties and retention that extend permanently into the future. AIG execs, eat your heart out.
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Posted in Democratic Party, Economic Collapse, Election, Financial Crisis, Freedom, Government Corruption, Health Care, Homeschooling, Income Taxes, Lobbyists / Special Interests, Marinette, Morality and Virtue, Peshtigo, Public Concerns, Public Schools, Recall Doyle, Recession / Depression, Revolution, Second Amendment, State Government, State of Wisconsin, Tea Party, WI, Wisconsin, economy, pork barrel, rights, taxation, voter fraud on May 21st, 2009 No Comments »
Bill Clinton asks; Why would we Wisconsin Citizens Recall Governor James Doyle? In the following video he asks the question:
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